What you ask us by phone and on WhatsApp, answered properly: when each fruit is in season, how to keep it, and why ours doesn’t all look the same.
A jar that goes solid and grainy is alarming the first time. It’s the opposite of what people fear: the honey that never crystallises is the suspicious one.
A direct-sale box doesn’t look like a supermarket tray, and that throws people the first time. What each mark is, which are normal and which aren’t.
«Use an untreated lemon», say the recipes, and hardly anyone knows what that means. When the peel is usable, how to check, and how to zest without bitterness.
Between the tree and the shelf there are six or seven steps, all legal and all with a reason. Worth knowing which, if only to choose with some idea of what you’re doing.
An orange that shines like a shop window is waxed. It isn’t poison or a trick: it’s what fruit needs when it has to last months. Ours doesn’t need it.
Colour tells you nothing and neither does size. These are the signs that really separate an orange with juice from one that’s spent months in a cold store.
The fridge doesn’t ruin oranges, but it takes something away. When it’s worth using it, when it isn’t, and the spot almost everyone has without realising.
Fifteen kilos in the house is a little daunting on day one. Kept properly they last three or four weeks, and it comes down to three things: air, cool and no piling.
«Seasonal» has become a claim stuck on everything. This is what it actually means and what changes inside the fruit.
January has mandarins and no persimmons; August has neither. The full calendar of what’s picked in the Ribera, month by month.
Being picked in September:
Lemons · Orange blossom honey · Italian frying pepper · Aubergine · Squash
It’s picked the day we prepare your order and leaves Albalat straight for your door.
This product has no fixed price because it changes with the season. Send us your enquiry and we’ll tell you what we have and what it costs.
Este producto no lleva precio fijo porque cambia con la temporada. Déjanos tu consulta y te decimos lo que hay y a cómo está.
